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Answer by Justme for Commodore Mouse not recognized by a Commodore PC30-III...

Since it is a Commodore PC 30-III, the mouse port is not a serial port and no serial mice should be plugged into it.The mouse port is only compatible with Commodore mice that send the quadrature...

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Answer by rackandboneman for Commodore Mouse not recognized by a Commodore...

In the age of serial mice, there were two completely incompatible standards that most mice emulated (many had a physical switch to select either of both, eg the popular Genius brand mice) - "Microsoft"...

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Answer by TeaRex for Commodore Mouse not recognized by a Commodore PC30-III...

Port 023C sounds like it could be compatible with a Microsoft InPort bus mouse. Try a MS mouse driver for DOS (version 8.20 or older) with parameter /I1 or /I2.

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Answer by Stephen Kitt for Commodore Mouse not recognized by a Commodore...

Since your mouse has three buttons, it won’t use the same protocol as Microsoft mice (at least, in three-button mode), and won’t be fully supported by the Microsoft driver.Presumably the mouse was...

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Commodore Mouse not recognized by a Commodore PC30-III 286 machine

I have Commodore PC 30-III 286 machine with a serial port at the back labelled "mouse". If I plug my Commodore mouse 1900 serial mouse then execute mouse.com at the DOS prompt then I get the following...

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Answer by Peter Szanto for Commodore Mouse not recognized by a Commodore...

To answer my own question I ended up buying a converter from 25 pin serial to 9 pin converter like this :With that I could connect my mouse to the serial port. After I enabled the serial port in BIOS...

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